SCHOLARSHIP REGULATIONS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXII, Issue 6343, 17 June 1889, Page 2

SCHOLARSHIP REGULATIONS.

(BY TELEGRAP—PRESS. ASSOCIATION)

Auckland, Saturday: The question of the revision of scholarship regulations was considered at the meeting of the Boaid of Education on Friday afternoon. There were no alterations of importance with the exception of the mattei of affording opportunity for pupiiß to attend the Lincoln School of Agriculture. Mr J. H. Upton, the chairman, said that as the Board bad decided to send scholarship holders to the School of Agriculture,he would movo-that the following clause be added Any senior scholarships may, nt the desire of the holder, be tenable at the Lincoln School of Agriculture, Canterbury, subject to the couditions set forth in thoso regulations, provided that this privilege may not bo exercised in respect of more than two such scholarships of the number awarded in any one year," Mr Monk feared that it would not bo a suceess, He contended that there might. > v be lads who would make excellent pupils 'for the Agiicultural College, and yet had not the qualifications which would binquieito to enable them to win the scholarships entitling them to that College. On the other hand most of the winners of the scholarships would not be the kind that would take up an agiicultural life, andco«sequently an attendance at the College would be of little use to them, He would like to see some system by means of which lads who had an aptitude for agriculture, and to whom such instruction would be valuable," might be sent to the College under restrictions, such, for instance, *s being recommended bv the Board of Governors oE the University, The Chairman said that the scholarship holders would only go to tbe Lincoln College if they desired to do so, What Mr Monfe waDted might be done by the Govern- 1 juent, Ho would quote from tbe report of the Commissioners on Lincoln Collego to show that they had been of a similar opinion. The olause he roferred to read : —" We strongly recommend that a system of scholaiships available at the School of Agriculture should' be iuitiated. These might be provided (1), by the Government; (2), in connection with the Stale schools- ' *nd we also think that the funds of the institution could be so managed as to provide a certain number of scholarships out of the endowment,"

Mr Luke thought that what they wanted was a school of agriculture for Auckland. Mr Moat said that there was an endow* inent in the Waikato hut it wbb, not sufficiently extensive.

Mr Monk movod thn' the Board ask the Government to give eiiuot to the report of the Commission with regard to providing some system of Government scholarships for the Lincoln Collet of Agriculture. This was agreed to by the Board,